Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
Birthday: April 10
Death: September 18
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
source: William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”
topic: Hate, Struggle, Sea, Oceans And Seas, Wild Beasts, Wild Sea, Sailors And The Sea